[Leica] For Ted and other WWII aircraft nuts

[DouglasMSharp at netscape.net (Douglas M. Sharp)]

Peter Dzwig schrieb:

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> This last I cannot claim to be anything like good. However the plane 
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          What a lovely line-up of Mustangs Peter! and a Thunderbolt in
          the background too! Though I think this shot could take a
          touch more contrast, on my TFT-screen it looks a touch too grey.


          The original R.J.Mitchell designed prototype K5054 aircraft
          crashed and was totally destroyed on 2 September 1939 at
          Farnborough. The pilot, F/Lt White, was killed in the crash.


          The finished "new" prototype was unveiled in early 1993 at the
          RAF Museum in Hendon. It had been built by Aerofab
          Restorations funded by the Spitfire Society, on the suggestion
          of one of the test pilots, as a tribute to R.J. Mitchell.The
          reconstruction was based on the templates of a MkV and RJs
          original drawings.

Another tribute to him is a Spitfire on a high pole in the middle of a 
carpark close to Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent) where Mitchell was born.
Douglas

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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/GoodwoodAirfield/SpitfireprototypeGoodwoodRevival2004
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> I am posting these for interest; if you like them so much the better...
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> Regards,
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> Peter Dzwig
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> PS I will get round to putting the others of the Revival up soon.
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